Pepper seeds

[Dollarbill300]

Just curious, I was cooking dinner last night and cut open a pepper and saved all the seeds. I'm sure this sounds like a stupid question, but can I plant those seeds? If so, why would anybody ever buy pepper seeds.

 

[Chuck]

Just curious, I was cooking dinner last night and cut open a pepper and saved all the seeds. I'm sure this sounds like a stupid question, but can I plant those seeds? If so, why would anybody ever buy pepper seeds.

If the pepper was ripe you can but if it was still green it would be a waste of time

 

[Dollarbill300]

Chuck,

Thanks, you seem to be one of the very few people on here that responds to my posts. It was a dark green pepper, but it was ripe.

 

[Chuck]

Chuck,

Thanks, you seem to be one of the very few people on here that responds to my posts. It was a dark green pepper, but it was ripe.

What kind of pepper was it?

 

[Dollarbill300]

Green bell pepper

 

[Chuck]

Green bell pepper

A bell pepper is red, yellow or orange, sometimes brown or purple at maturity. Ripeness means it is palatable. Maturity means it is able to reproduce. A green bell pepper is not mature and is incapable of reproducing which means those seeds are not viable

 

[Dollarbill300]

I didn't know that. Thanks.

 

[headfullofbees]

It's more complicated than that. Even if you buy a pepper which has its mature colour, it's not necessarily the case that it was PICKED when the seeds were mature enough to be come viable.
Even if the seeds are viable, if it's a hybrid, there is a very good chance that it'll be nothing like that you have bought.
You need the mature seeds from an open-pollinated variety in order to grow peppers that will resemble the mother fruit.